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Cool Runnings

(1993)

Bright, happy comedy based on true story of four Jamaicans who decided to represent their nation for the first time ever in the bobsled competition of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. John Candy plays the Coach, a former sledder himself determined to prove himself after his own past failures. When they get to Canada for serious training (the four had never even seen snow before), they find themselves up against sledders from countries that take the competition way too seriously. Will the unlikely Jamaican Bobsled Team wow the crowd? Will disgraced Olympic coach Candy redeem himself? 97 minutes rated PG, produced by Disney Studios.Cast:
Doug E.Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba, Raymond J. Barry, Marco Brambilla. The Jamaican-themed soundtrack is by Hans Zimmer

Delirious

(1991)

John Candy stars as a daytime-TV writer who wakes up in the town he created. While Candy is somewhat miscast as romantic lead, comedy/fantasy has its moments and really takes off when he discovers he can change what's going on with his typewriter (inspired perhaps by John Dehner's comedic episode of The Twilight Zone) before the murder and mayhem get out of hand. 96 minutes rated PG.

Additional cast:
Emma Samms, Mariel Hemingway, David Rasche (TV's detective Sledge Hammer), Charles Rocket, Raymond Burr (Godzilla 1956, Hitchcock's Rear Window), Dylan Baker, Jerry Orbach (Law & Order, Murder She Wrote), Renee Taylor, cameo by Robert Wagner of Concorde: Airport 79. Director Tom Mankiewicz had better luck directing the Monstervision movie Dragnet (1987) starring Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Harry Morgan and Christopher Plummer. John Candy's final two movies were Wagons East (a badly-written Western spoof) and Canadian Bacon (a comedy in which the U.S. declares war on Canada, with John Candy and Dan Aykroyd in the cast as cops on opposite sides of the border). Candy first became a star with the sketch comedy TV series SCTV